2026 Enterprise AI Predictions – Fragmentation, Commodification and the Agent Push Facing CIOs
The next frontier of enterprise AI isn’t just about smarter models, it’s about how organizations operationalize, scale, and govern them. In a new article for InformationWeek, George Lawton shares the trends shaping enterprise AI in 2026, from increasing fragmentation across AI initiatives to the commoditization of tooling and the growing push toward agent-centric architectures confronting CIOs and technology leaders.
Bridgenext’s Sreeni Vemulapalli, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of Enterprise AI, offers a grounded perspective on where real enterprise value will be created as agentic AI matures. “The true competitive advantage will belong to the enterprises that have meticulously documented, secured and exposed their proprietary business logic and systems as high-quality, agent-callable APIs” Vemulapalli notes, highlighting a shift away from brittle “glue code” toward standardized agentic primitives.
Read the full article here on InformationWeek for a practical view of what CIOs should prioritize, and what they should avoid as enterprise AI infrastructure and strategy evolve in 2026.